problem recoverig VM from Datastore
Power was cut from my ESXi4.1 hyper-visor........I put back in the ESXi4.1 cd and booted chose the repair option. It told me tat it also found a Datastore on the same HD that I just repaired, but that...
View ArticleCPU Usage is not showing in vCenter
ESXi 4.1 is running on Proliant DL 380 G7 model. I observed, vCenter is not reporting the CPU utilization of Server in the Resources portion of Summery Tab.Snapshot is also attached with this post for...
View ArticleSCSI Reservation Conflict on local storage
I have one customer with standalone ESXi. Local Adaptec RAID, several LUNs on top of it, each with VMFS. For some reasons ESXi hanged up. They rebooted ESXi and then strange thing happened.One VMFS...
View ArticleIPv6 VSS and VDS
I understand that IPv6 needs to be enabled on the host so that IPv6 can be used for vmkernel adapters, but if all we need is IPv6 on virtual machines (thus through both standard switches and...
View ArticleUnmount/Detach a SAN Datastore on ESX 4.1
On an ESX 4.1.0 server, managed by VCenter 5.5.0, we have one particular Datastore where the underlying SAN needs to be rebooted. The Datastore has only one VM residing on it, and I've shut that VM...
View Article4.1 to 5.5 Upgrade Help
Hello Everyone, Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this topic, but it seemed most appropriate. I have just started working for a new company, who currently have ESXI 4.1, I have previous...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 10 - HDMI audio causes error
Hello, My apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I've been combing the boards for hours, and have not turned up a solution. I have a Lenovo desktop PC, with an ATI Radeon HD 8570 PCI...
View ArticleHow to capture hardware log on server running VMWare ESXi 4.0
Hi guys.I have 2 server IBM & HP, I have been running VMWare ESXi 4.0 on both of them. Could you tell me how to capture hardware log of them? I want to get detail log like dsa on IBM, HP Insight...
View ArticleChange datastore interface from SAS to FC on same SAN storage
Hi all, We have environment with 3 ESXi forming VM HA, connecting to IBM SAN Storage DS3512 by SAS which are datastores located.Now we have project to change interface from SAS to FC using same storage...
View ArticleShutdown of ESXi 4 with Data Recovery 1
Occasionally we have planned power cuts and need to shut everything down, sometimes in a pinch. We are looking for procedures on completely shutting down an ESXi 4 with vCenter and Data Recovery in a...
View ArticleInvalid Configuration for device "11"
I've been reading a lot on invalid configuration for devices 0, 1, and 4, but my error is on "11". It happens when I create a new VM based on a snapshot of an existing. My question is, how do I know...
View ArticleEncrypting ESXi host with BitLocker
We are being asked to encrypt out exchange server, but we're running into a few issues. For the most part, MS only recommends using BitLocker as the encryption solution, but our Exchange environment is...
View ArticleConverted Hyper V machine - unable to RDP
Today I used the standalone vmware converter to convert a Hyper V machine (Windows 2008R2 SP1) that was running on a physical server (Windows 2008R2) to an server running Esxi 4.0 The conversion went...
View Articlehow can create VMFS partition manually
Hello, our server ran into a HDD failure and as it's raid 5 (raid array consists of 3 HDDs, usable space 290GBs) we replaced the failed drive and proceeded to boot. the system did boot at all and...
View ArticleBoot manager error 0xc0000225
I made and attempt to convert a virtual machine running windows server 2008 r2 over to the ESXi platform which has worked for many virtual machines up until this point. I ran the VMware converter from...
View ArticleOptions for accessing cluster when vCenter server's database is down
The SQL server that we use for one of our vCenter servers (4.1) went down hard, and for various reasons, it won't be back up for several days. What are my options for managing the cluster in the...
View ArticleVirtual Disk Space Error
I have a client who has VMWare ESXi 4.1.0. The other day their internet gateway virtual machine (linux based) and their Windows Server was powered off. When I attempted to power on I received a Virtual...
View ArticlePatch ESXi v4.1 host where VCenter is running
Hi, in our lab we have a deployment of 3 ESXi V4.1 hosts and 9 hosts V5.5, which i just upgraded from V5.1.I have also patched the 2 of the 3 V4.1 hosts to the latest patch. The 3rd one is the last...
View ArticleBig performance difference for the same VM on 2 different ESXi servers for...
Hello,I experiment a big performance difference for the same VM on 2 different ESXi servers (cloned from one to the other).One is an old Dell Power Edge T610 (2 Xeon X5650), the other is a newer Dell...
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